Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XIX 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 14
Preface 12
CHAPTER I. THEORY OF INTENSITY DEPENDENT RESONANCE LIGHT SCATTERING AND RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE 18
1. Introduction 20
2. Description of the Electromagnetic Field 29
3. Scattering Spectrum for a Closed Two-Level System with Radiative Relaxation 32
4. Collisional Relaxation 48
5. Multilevel Atom with Two Laser-Coupled States 53
References 57
CHAPTER II. SURFACE AND SIZE EFFECTS ON THE LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTRA OF SOLIDS 62
1. Introduction 64
2. Light Scattering from Opaque Media and Films of Finite Thickness Qualitative Considerations
3. Surface and Guided Wave Polaritons 81
4. Light Scattering from Surface and Guided Wave Polaritons 93
5. Surface and Size Effects on Brillouin Scattering from Acoustical Phonons and Spin Waves 112
6. Light Scattering as a Microscopic Probe of the Surface Region 141
7. Concluding Remarks 151
References 152
CHAPTER III. LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY OF SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN SOLIDS 156
1. Introduction 158
2. Surface Polaritons in Different Geometries 161
3. Raman Scattering by Surface Polaritons 172
4. Experimental Results 188
5. Effects of Surface Roughness 207
6. Concluding Remarks 219
Acknowledgements 219
Appendix: Derivation of the Disposal Relation for Surface Polaritons and Guided-wave Polaritons in a Double Interface Geometry 220
References 225
CHAPTER IV. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL DATA-PROCESSING 228
1. Introduction 230
2. Field Theory of Optical Systems 233
3. System-theoretical Approach to Coherent Optical Signal Processors 239
4. Partially Coherent Illumination 244
5. Basic System Constraints 249
6. Examples of Physical and Abstract Systems 262
7. Operational Notation of Optical Systems and Basic Cascade Equivalences 269
8. Operational Analysis of Optical Systems 273
9. Systems Compounded of Lenses and Sections of Free Space (LG-systems) 280
10. Shift-invariant Systems: Coherent Versus Incoherent Illumination 285
11. Related Topics 292
References 296
CHAPTER V. THE EFEECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE IN OPTICAL ASTRONOMY 298
1. Introduction 300
2. Statistical Properties of Atmospheric Turbulence 301
3. Statistical Properties of the Perturbed Complex Field 308
4. Long-Exposure Images 314
5. Short-Exposure Images 326
6. Exposure-Time and Non-Isoplanicity Effects 336
7. Optical Path Fluctuations 345
8. Stellar Scintillation 358
9. Applications to High Resolution Imaging 367
10. Seeing Monitors and Site Testing 377
11. Conclusion 384
References 385
AUTHOR INDEX 394
SUBJECT INDEX 402
CUMULATIVE INDEX – VOLUMES I-XIX 406